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08/17/2005 07:05:07 PM · #1

If 5 is clean as a whistle and 1 is foot prints are visible, how long is the '5 second rule' when it comes to your kitchen floor and food falling upon it?

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

08/17/2005 07:10:33 PM · #2

How clean, exactly, is a whistle?

strangeghost

Canon EOS-7D

08/17/2005 07:13:53 PM · #3

Factor in how scrumpdeleyicious the food item is. E.g., if it's a piece of grandma's steamin' apple pie, the five second rule can be extended a bit, even if footprints are visible.

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

08/17/2005 07:16:31 PM · #4

Originally posted by greatandsmall:

How clean, exactly, is a whistle?

Probably not too clean, but I think you know what I meant. How about SPOTLESS!

Canon EOS-60D

08/17/2005 07:20:36 PM · #5

At my house it's always been the 10 second rule... ;)

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

08/17/2005 07:21:03 PM · #6

Originally posted by strangeghost:

Factor in how scrumpdeleyicious the food item is. E.g., if it's a piece of grandma's steamin' apple pie, the five second rule can be extended a bit, even if footprints are visible.

I'll agree and add - even if footprints are visible on top of the pie! mmmmmmm pie.....

08/17/2005 07:22:52 PM · #7

Originally posted by strangeghost:

Factor in how scrumpdeleyicious the food item is. E.g., if it's a piece of grandma's steamin' apple pie, the five second rule can be extended a bit, even if footprints are visible.

Hmm...got a point there...so if it is grandma's apple pie and it is steaming, the dirt level is irrelevant and so is the time factor.

Ok...now here is a thought...the slice of pie falls on the floor at exactly 6:58 am when it fell off the counter due to gravatational shift or some other such nonsense. You left for work/school (whatever) at 6:55 am so you had no way of knowing that the pie fell. The floor is dirty. I mean earthworms could be crawling around down there for all you know. This little patch of floor is in just the right spot for the sun to hit it all day long and since it is magnifying through this slightly concave round glass window above the sink, by the time you come home for lunch and you slam the door as you come in all you see is a steaming piece of grandma's apple pie on the floor and figure it just fell there. You going to eat it?

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

08/17/2005 07:24:08 PM · #8

Originally posted by kpriest:

I'll agree and add - even if footprints are visible on top of the pie! mmmmmmm pie.....

Ok..that does it. I just snarfed again. My keyboard can't take all this. I am going to have to limit reading your posts to when I have no beverages near by.

naomik

Nikon D800

08/17/2005 07:24:37 PM · #9

It depends which one of us can get to it...the human, the rottweiler or the jack russell!

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

08/17/2005 07:25:54 PM · #10

Originally posted by Alienyst:

Ok..that does it. I just snarfed again. My keyboard can't take all this. I am going to have to limit reading your posts to when I have no beverages near by.

Feel free to slurp the beverage right off the keyboard - nobody's looking...

Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED

08/17/2005 07:28:30 PM · #11

Didn't I just post something about not reading your posts while beverages were near by? Well, I didn't listen to myself.

Pedro

Nikon D200

08/17/2005 07:29:42 PM · #12

Originally posted by Alienyst:

Ok...now here is a thought...the slice of pie falls on the floor at exactly 6:58 am when it fell off the counter due to gravatational shift or some other such nonsense. You left for work/school (whatever) at 6:55 am so you had no way of knowing that the pie fell. The floor is dirty. I mean earthworms could be crawling around down there for all you know. This little patch of floor is in just the right spot for the sun to hit it all day long and since it is magnifying through this slightly concave round glass window above the sink, by the time you come home for lunch and you slam the door as you come in all you see is a steaming piece of grandma's apple pie on the floor and figure it just fell there. You going to eat it?

if it sat there all day and there was no one there to touch it, and the dirt presumably doesn't move...will it get any dirtier? I'd say eat it. however I don't eat pie, so I'm maybe not the best judge.

KaDi

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

08/17/2005 07:31:47 PM · #13

2 second rule at my house....

...cats can be damn fast, especially for grandma's pie.

Tuckersmom

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1

08/17/2005 07:35:52 PM · #14

I'm going for the pie regardless (well, almost regardless). My mother always said "you gotta eat a peck of dirt before you die" whatever that means. And pie is pie after all

Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko

08/17/2005 07:38:23 PM · #15

A couple of days ago I threw out the last of a pie. My husband was intending to eat it. Since it was in a plastic container and on top of the trash I got it out and he ate it.

Is that worse than if it were to sit on the floor all day? It wasn't Grandma's, it was from Publix.

Brad

Olympus OM-D E-M1

08/17/2005 07:39:52 PM · #16

Rules about food on the floor?
I don't even have them here at my shop.

If it's edible, and on the floor, it's fair game - though I have noticed a slightly different texture on that 'piece' of yogurt.
Is yogurt suppose to be crunchy?

deapee

Kodak V803

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

08/17/2005 07:40:36 PM · #17

Well, if it's an OREO cookie and there's 19 others in the pack just like that one, I won't even think about it...but if it's the last chocolate covered pretzel, for example, I'd eat it...the rule wouldn't apply.

08/17/2005 07:40:46 PM · #18

Originally posted by Pedro:

and the dirt presumably doesn't move...

Guess you missed the part about the earthworms down there. The dirt would be moving...it is ALIVE!

08/18/2005 08:39:08 AM · #19

Originally posted by greatandsmall:

hahahaha thats just nasty. My rule or way of thinking is, if it falls on the floor then its garbage. If it's IN, ON or NEAR the garbage then it's garbage.

Then again what do I know about food. I open my fridge and there is beer,wine, drink mix and a phone to order dinner.

08/18/2005 08:42:57 AM · #20

Originally posted by notonline:

Then again what do I know about food. I open my fridge and there is beer,wine, drink mix and a phone to order dinner.

LOL...You keep your phone in the fridge? That's unusual.

Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Canon

08/18/2005 08:45:55 AM · #21

How else am I supposed to order food. I open the fridge and look KNOWING I haven't gone shoping ever so I know to order takeout. All the takeout menu's are on the outside of the fridge. This way I know I can be board looking in the fridge as everyone else is. If you think thats odd you should see my bathroom. Photo's in profile.

Tranquil

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

08/18/2005 08:57:12 AM · #22

Originally posted by notonline:

Nice bathroom. :)

08/18/2005 09:00:00 AM · #23

Originally posted by Tranquil:

Originally posted by notonline:
How else am I supposed to order food. I open the fridge and look KNOWING I haven't gone shoping ever so I know to order takeout. All the takeout menu's are on the outside of the fridge. This way I know I can be board looking in the fridge as everyone else is. If you think thats odd you should see my bathroom. Photo's in profile.

Nice bathroom. :)

nah that was before the re-modeling. I was a fixer up'er.

08/18/2005 09:02:03 AM · #24

I'm guessing it's still an insane asylum...;)